BALANGA City, Bataan – This province and the United States Island Territory of Guam will soon enter into a sisterhood pact that will benefit thousands of construction workers here, Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III said Friday.
The mayor said Guam Lt. Gov. Michael Cruz (equivalent to vice-governor) will be visiting the province within this year to finalize the agreement and see for himself the beauty of the historic peninsula.
Garcia said Guam will soon have a migration of 8,000 US servicemen coming from Okinawa, Japan starting on 2009 to 2014. It is also expected that construction boom will cost $15 billion.
"Guam needs at least 20,000 skilled Filipino workers, mostly construction workers from Bataan with US standard salary of $6 – $7 per hour," the mayor said.
He also said that aside from construction, they are looking into the possibility of supplying Guam with agriculture products like pineapple. "Maliit na pinya doon eh $7 na," he said.
"We were informed that they also need school teachers with $35,000 salary a year, more or less," Garcia said.
The mayor and his father, Gov. Enrique Garcia, were in Guam recently as guests of the Bataan Association of Guam that celebrated its 11
The Island Territory is only three hours by plane from Manila at a one-way fare of $300 per person.
He said they are promoting birdwatching as one of the tourist attractions for visitors.
Balanga City was recently included in the first volume of the Birdwatching Guidebook of the Department of Tourism.
th year. Arsenio Santiago of Samal, Bataan is president of the association.
